I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.